Re: draw tool for text?

[Jim Hurley]

Message: 18
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:30:34 -0500
From: Louis Janus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: draw tool for text?
To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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While I know that most text in these programs belongs in one of the
many varieties of fields, I would like to add some letters along a
freehand curve -- not necessarily straight horizontal. I think most
other draw-like programs let me do this. As a bad attempt at
overcoming this, I painted the letters using the paintbrush -- but it
looks like a 1st grader's first attempt at carving the alphabet.
Any suggestions? (I am using Dreamcard).

Louis,
This probably isn't quite what you are looking for but it is a poor 
man's implementation which will give you text on a curve.  You will 
need Turtle Graphics for this. See RunRev's Dreamcard web site at: 
http://downloads.runrev.com/stacks_apps/#learn Download the Turtle 
Graphic stack.

The handler:
on mouseUP
  put "This is a semicircle" into tMessage
  put the number of chars in tMessage into tNum
  startTurtle
  setHeading 90
  penUp
  repeat with i = 1 to tNum
    forward 20
    right 180/tNum
    label char i of tMessage
  end repeat
end mouseUP
will draw the text "This is a semicircle" on a semicircle.
Jim
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